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Dr. Bill Lee is one of the civilian scientists working for Stargate Command. He mostly works in the labs of the base, but has been known to do field research, either on Earth or off-world. What particular field(s) Bill Lee has his doctorate(s) in has never been established. His main focus at the SGC has been alien technology. He has studied Goa'uld, Ancient, and other aliens' technology in his tenure at the SGC. Unfortunately, as can be seen in the examples below, Dr. Lee's experiments often get away from him, but this may be the nature of working with unknown technology. He is often assigned to vitally important projects. (SG1: "Prodigy", "Paradise Lost", "Evolution, Part 1", "Evolution, Part 2", "Resurrection", "Babylon")

Dr. Bill Lee first appeared as a member of the scientific expedition to M4C-862 under the direction of Dr.Duncan Hamilton. He created a mechanism to trap one of the Small energy beings for study, and he succeeded by creating a magnetic cage. Later, he witnessed the life forms attack and kill his colleague, Dr.Bill Thompson. When the life forms attacked en masse, MajorSamantha Carter, ColonelJack O'Neill, and Teal'c rescued the group using information extrapolated from Lee's experiment. Before Lee left the planet, he made a point to thank O'Neill for risking his life for the group. (SG1: "Prodigy")

Lee next was involved in the search and rescue effort to find ColonelJack O'Neill and Harold Maybourne when they disappeared on the planet P5X-777. Despite running various tests, they were unable to find any trace of the men, nor could Lee and the other scientists discover any way to access the alien technology that caused the men to disappear. Lee gave up, and got into a heated verbal battle with MajorSamantha Carter, the commander of the search and rescue, when he refused to continue. His report of the incident was later used as evidence against SG-1 during one of Vice PresidentRobert Kinsey's attempts to take over Stargate Command, though Carter and Bill Lee have since worked together with no apparent residual animosity. (SG1: "Paradise Lost", "Inauguration")

Lee's enthusiasm for his work with alien technology sometimes gets the best of him. He at first was excited at the growth potential of the alien plant found on P6J-908, dreaming at the potential of eradicating world hunger. He was not fully concerned with losing complete control of the plant's growth until it started affecting power and communications in Stargate Command. Lee and his team figured out that gamma rays killed the alien plant. This treatment had an unintended yet beneficial side effect, because the radiation revealed that a recently obtained, half-powered Zero Point Module was booby-trapped. Lee was able to warn Brigadier GeneralJack O'Neill before they sent the power source to the Antarctic outpost. (SG1: "Zero Hour")

One of Lee's long term projects was studying the Virtual reality pods from P7J-989. He and other scientists developed a computer training game program for personnel which they tested on themselves. However, when the game was played by Teal'c with his extensive field experience, it was found lacking. The nature of the chairs' programming “learned” from the user, and Lee requested Teal'c continue to play the scenario to improve it. When the game would not let Teal'c out, Lee and Lt. ColonelSamantha Carter, inspired by a comment by Brigadier GeneralJack O'Neill, exploited a fluke in the system. This gave Dr.Daniel Jackson a two second advantage, so he could join the game and help Teal'c. After several attempts, they were able to defeat the scenario and the pod deactivated. (SG1: "The Gamekeeper", "Avatar")

The following year, when Vala Mal Doran snapped the Kor mak bracelet on Dr.Daniel Jackson's wrist, Lee was the one who was tasked to try and release the device. He was able to monitor a low energy reading that didn't exist before, and broke three electric saw blades trying to cut the bracelet off of Daniel. To Daniel's frustration, there was nothing Lee could do to release the bond. (SG1: "Avalon, Part 1")

After the discovery of the Long-range communication device, Lee had conducted all possible tests, and the only remaining option was to try and activate the device. Lee did not expect Dr.Daniel Jackson and Vala Mal Doran to lose consciousness when they activated the device, but theorized this may be what was supposed to happen. He remained with Dr.Carolyn Lam monitoring Daniel's and Vala's conditions while they were mentally attached to the device, and physically blocked Lt. ColonelCameron Mitchell's efforts to shoot the device for fear of endangering the two, or even causing a surge that could destroy the base. Lee collected a lot of data during Daniel and Vala's time connected to the device, and studied it after Daniel and Vala were freed of its control. (SG1: "Avalon, Part 2", "Origin", "Crusade")

When AgentMalcolm Barrett reported the Goa'uld controlled The Trust and had infiltrated Atlantis and planted a bomb, Major GeneralHenry Landry ordered Dr. Lee to come up with a way to warn the expedition before they dialed Earth, which would detonate the device. Under a tight timeframe, Lee recommended sending a science team to P4M-399, a tiny planet at the outskirts of the Milky WayGalaxy, where they could send a long distance signal to the Daedalus who would then piggy-back the signal to Atlantis. This method was successful. Later, Lt. ColonelSamantha Carter returned from an offworld mission and assisted him and Agent Barrett in their attempts to discover the location and nature of the Atlantis explosive device. (ATL: "Critical Mass")

While the Goa'uld Nerus was in custody at Area 51, Lee studied the Goa'uld's various devices. Under Major GeneralHenry Landry's orders, Lee installed a trojan-style computer virus into several of Nerus's devices. They went undetected by the Goa'uld and infected Ba'al's Ha'tak when Nerus installed one into his lab's computer system. Lee's virus shut down power, shields and weapons throughout the ship, making it possible for SG-1 to infiltrate the ship. He also studied the Kassa, a corn-like produce, brought back by ColonelAlbert Reynolds and SG-3. He was able to determine that the plant contained a highly addictive psycho-stimulant and that it was artificially engineered. (SG1: "Off the Grid")

Major GeneralHenry Landry came to Lee for his analysis of the data culled after losing contact with the Gamma Site. Lee, overcoming his fear and dislike for bugs, was able to determine the scourge of insects were R-75, a type of bug he hoped could be used against the Lucian Alliance's Kassa crops. Instead, he noted the insects had somehow become carnivorous. He acknowledged that, based on this data, he would likely be able to "whip up" an agent capable of killing the bugs, but would be deadly to other life as well, including humans. He was crestfallen to learn that Landry suspected that there was no one left alive at the Gamma site to rescue. (SG1: "The Scourge")

Lee and Lt. ColonelSamantha Carter had been trying to figure out what one of the Ancient objects from Avalon did for six months. Early one morning, Carter inadvertently activated the device, shifting Carter and Lt. ColonelCameron Mitchell out of phase with this dimension. After tracking Lee's lab as the Carter and Mitchell's last known whereabouts, Bill came up with a theory that the device miniaturized the two. After a thorough search, the theory was discounted, though he was later teased by Dr.Daniel Jackson about it. Lee discovered the device was giving off trace amounts of Lepton radiation, inspiring Jackson to realize the device pushed his teammates into another dimension (lepton radiation was also radiated when he himself was pushed out of phase by the Crystal skull). Lee thought he had come up with a way to counteract the effect, but instead, Lee merely repeated the process and Jackson too became out of phase. Dejected, Lee continued to work on the problem alone, but unfortunately compounded his mistake when another attempt drained most of the device's power supply. He reported the danger immediately to Major GeneralHenry Landry, explaining that there was likely only a few minutes of power left. He readjusted the algorithm again to no effect. However, Jackson had been able to translate the Ancient instructions projected from the device in the alternate dimension, and reversed the effect from there. (SG1: "Arthur's Mantle")

Bill Lee was in charge of studying Ba'al's Al'kesh after it was shot down en route to Cheyenne Mountain. By activating the tracking system on the Al'kesh, he was able to determine where the Ba'al clones were, leading to the capture of several of them. When the Ba'als engineered a breakout, Lee suggested symbiote poison be used, but the way Stargate Commands ventilation system worked, the canisters of poison had to be strategically placed in five locations to avoid pockets of fresh air where the Ba'al clones could take refuge. Unfortunately, a firefight broke out before all the canisters could be placed, and Lee's plan had to be enacted prematurely, allowing some of the Ba'als to escape. (SG1: "Insiders")

Dr. Lee attended a scientific conference with Lt. ColonelSamantha Carter, where they were to demonstrate "developing technologies" (which were actually backwards engineered, less operative versions of the real alien devices they used on a daily basis). Lee's project was the X-699 energy weapon, which they purposefully sabotaged to appear to be not viable technology for the public. However, when an alien bounty hunter made an attempt on Carter's life during her lecture, Lee helped her put the laser into working order so that she could return fire. The audience in the hall were very impressed at the "demonstration". (SG1: "Bounty")

Later, he swapped bodies with Eli Wallace so he can discuss his plan to dial Earth with the other scientists. Lee was impressed by Eli's work and Adam Brody decided to tell him that Eli was probably the smartest person he knew and asked Lee not to tell Eli he said that, but by then Eli had switched back and Lee never heard it. (SGU: "Twin Destinies")